Existentialists and Mystics Quotes

“Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.”
― Iris Murdoch, Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature

“Any society contains propaganda, but it is important to distinguish this from art and to preserve the purity and independence of the practice of art. A good society contains many different artists doing many different things. A bad society coerces artists because it knows that they can reveal all kinds of truths.”
― Iris Murdoch, Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature

“What does M. Marcel52 think that philosophy is? He uses various phrases to describe it in his first volume of Gifford lectures. It is a reflective quest inspired by a metaphysical uneasiness. It”
― Iris Murdoch, Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature

“Imagination is a kind of freedom, a renewed ability to perceive and express the truth.”
― Iris Murdoch, Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature